File:Very early colour image - Paget Colour process (detail showing colour grid) (4930188331).jpg

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The reproduction of the technical detail isn't great here - under a lens each colour 'dot' is actually a very sharp-edge diamond shape (or rather a square rotated 45-degrees). There are c. 3 dots per millimetre.

It is a sandwich of two thin glass plates, measuring c. 4x3". It has a very distinctive colour 'grid' (see the detailed view). It is certainly not an Autochrome, doesn't appear to be a Dufaycolor or Finlay Colour ("Thames Colour Screen") which were two early thoughts, but actually appears to be a Paget Colour plate, made famous by Frank Hurley on his Antarctic expeditions.

See adjacent images for full image and crop. All information and comments would be greatly appreciated.

Discovered in a box of glass negatives, this I believe dates from the very early part of the 20th Century, probably no later than around 1920.
Source Very early colour image - Paget Colour process (detail showing colour grid)
Author whatsthatpicture from Hanwell, London, UK
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by whatsthatpicture at https://www.flickr.com/photos/24469639@N00/4930188331. It was reviewed on 3 October 2014 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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